The Hornet's doing well (I've been driving it nearly every day) but I came to the next project on it. The windshield is scratched pretty bad on the passenger side where the old wiper blade came off and got it with the steel blade. Other then that the windshield is perfect, so I want to try and save it. Is there a Grassroots solution to getting them out?
There is a polishing kit you can get that comes with a special polisher head for a drill and rhodite powder. If the scratch isn't deep enough to catch your fingernail, then it will probably work. I've used it several times with success. Pretty slow, tedious process, but it works.
http://www.eastwood.com/glass-polishing-kit-pro.html http://www.eastwood.com/glass-polishing-kit-for-deep-scratches.html
Comes with enough material to do 4-5 whole windshields. I've been using the same kit for 5 years now, and it isn't even half gone.
I'd call around to local glass shops and see if any of them can fill a scratch that long with that chip epoxy.
try toothpaste
Tyler H wrote: There is a polishing kit you can get that comes with a special polisher head for a drill and rhodite powder. If the scratch isn't deep enough to catch your fingernail, then it will probably work. I've used it several times with success. Pretty slow, tedious process, but it works. http://www.eastwood.com/glass-polishing-kit-pro.html http://www.eastwood.com/glass-polishing-kit-for-deep-scratches.html Comes with enough material to do 4-5 whole windshields. I've been using the same kit for 5 years now, and it isn't even half gone.
I've used the same product. Useful on scratches,not much good on chips. It isn't represented as being for chips though.
Wiper haze is about all its good for. Like when someone lets the blades get bad enough that the wiper arm touches the glass. 
It takes a very long time to even get even a light wiper arm scratch out of a windshield. Years ago I spent a week of evenings trying to buff the wiper arm scratch out of a 71 Valient windshield and it came out fair at best. Then I tried to save the original windshield in my 66 Mustang by buffing out the whole thing to make it clear thinking the tiny little sand nicks couldn't be all that hard to buff out. HA! , gave up and bought new glass. Never again will I try to buff a windshield, if new ones can be had then a new windshield is the way to go.
If you try buffing out a wiper scratch be carefull not to buff to much in one area because it will cause distortion and give you eye strain. Guys in a glass shop warned me about that when they were done laughing about me trying to buff out a wiper arm mark on a windshield.
Other glass may be easier to buff out a scratch but windshields are tough
True...it is a lot of work. But when the factory glass has the vin etched into it and you want to keep it original, it is worth it. There is a very limited range of damage that can be buffed.
For my Nissan truck, spent $180 on a windshield. For a 94 MR2 Turbo, it was worth an hour or so.
P71 wrote: The Hornet's doing well (I've been driving it nearly every day) but I came to the next project on it. The windshield is scratched pretty bad on the passenger side where the old wiper blade came off and got it with the steel blade. Other then that the windshield is perfect, so I want to try and save it. Is there a Grassroots solution to getting them out?
Clear nail polish and a razor blade.
You fill the scratch with the nail polish then shave it off flush with the glass.
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